A Photo Booth Biennale, Epilogue

A second look at The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013.






1. Ryan McGinley Tommy & Heather, 2012
2. Ryan McGinley Falling, 2007
3. Ryan McGinley Back Against Wall, 2004
4. Ryan McGinley Jack (Hanging Rock), 2009
5. Ryan McGinley Brennan (Clear Poncho), 2007

Ryan McGinley has been chosen for his ability to portray naturalism in such straightforwardness, his photography turns into art/ificiality. He is a poet, an voyeur, a free-spirited extremist. And he shows us what we are (not).
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The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013

or 'A Photo Booth Biennale'

Suit Laitinen
T-Shirt RAF by Raf Simons

Exhibited artworks (in chronological order): Ryan McGinley, Nobuyoshi Araki, Wouter Vandenbrink, Ida Applebroog and Robert Mapplethorpe. Available in the museum's shop: Joseph Beuys 'Early Drawings'.
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The Nude Portrait II

category d.1) standing/descending, blurred



1. Gerhard Richter
2. Thomas Ruff
3. Ryan McGinley

category d.2) arm lifted, blurred

4. Thomas Ruff
5. Pierre Debusschere

category d.3) over the shoulder, blurred


6. Paolo Roversi
7. Pierre Debusschere

Continuing the typological entry on The Nude Portrait, the element of visual deformation is added as a phsychological motif of the beholder's excitement, shame and/or irritation.
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